Blog Archive : September 2011

The Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights is concerned about employers' refusal to hire job applicants because of criminal convictions from long in the past and the harsh impact that practice may have on African-American and Latino job applicants. People who have convictions that are at least seven years old and who have been denied employment because of their criminal recor...

The next steps in hiring class members in the Lewis v. Chicago firefighters case are going forward. Lewis is a race discrimination case involving the discriminatory use of an unjustified cut-off score in a test given in 1995 for hiring Chicago firefighters. As a result of the case, 111 African-American class members will be hired as firefighters. To move forward in hiring those c...